We are now less than two weeks away from the Presidential election – and Trump seems to have momentum. In the all-important states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, Trump looks ahead of Kamala. By a whisker.
From a policy perspective, what might a Trump victory on November 5th mean? A Trump win would be bad news for the administrative state. Talking to one of Trump’s policy people a couple of months ago, they suggested to me that in his first term Trump had been too trusting of officialdom. The 45th President had underestimated the extent to which the bureaucratic machine in Washington would try to frustrate his policy goals. I doubt that in a second term Team Trump would let that happen again. If Trump wins, I expect to see parts of the administrative state dismantled. Rumors suggest that Elon Musk would be asked to form an efficiency task force. With a ballooning national debt, perhaps Musk could reengineer government to reduce its size and costs, while improving its effectiveness? Trump has explicitly committed to eliminating the federal Department of Education. Speaking on “Fox & Friends”, Trump reiterated the point, saying that he wanted to get “education out of Washington”. In response to a question from a student, Trump said school choice “is one of the biggest things on my platform”. Trump went on to point out that the US currently spends more on education than many other Western countries, about $16,000 per student per year. Unlike some in Mississippi, Trump did not pretend that there had been some sort of education ‘miracle’. Indeed, Trump emphasized that the education system produces poor results, despite all the money lavished upon it.
Honesty about the true state of education is the essential first step if there is to be significant reform. In conservative Mississippi, we have somehow ended up with a new Education Superintendent, Lance Evans, that is anti-parent power. The other week, Evans went out of his way to attack school choice. How odd that in a Republican-run state we should have such an anti-school choice Education Superintendent at the moment when Trump looks likely to win the White House. Did the Republican leaders of our state not know Evans was anti school choice before he was appointed? Or did they know the man they were about to appoint was anti parent power, but go ahead all the same? A Trump victory will surely flush out the anti-school choice Republicans in states like Mississippi who have done little to advance parent power. It is not enough to pay lip service to school choice, yet somehow allow anti school choice officials to take the helm at the Department for Education. Nor is it acceptable to say you want school choice, when we have only a handful of Charter Schools because those appointed to oversee the Authorized Board seem happy to say “no” to new schools. This kind of politics has all the integrity of WorldCom accounting. A Trump win on November 5th could have the effect of an audit. Time could soon be up for anti-school choice “conservatives” in states like ours. Douglas Carswell is the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. MCPP sponsored this post.
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It all depends on whether the American public is ready for a dictatorship. Trump is ready to give us that.
If DJT doesn't win they will be coming for our guns, gas prices will explode, food prices will explode, and the cartel gangs will be taking over. Buy ammo while it's still available.
All if this can still happen if Trunp wins. The new Global Reserve currency was unveiled at the latest BRICS conference. The US has sacrificed much more by supporting Ukraine than simply trillions of tax dollars. We are about to lose status as the petrodollar and global reserve currency status. Nobody knows what will happen after that.
I can tell you that I am about tired of hearing about Ukraine. You used to never hear about that piss ant country until Hunter was on the board at Burisma and now we are sending billions of dollars to them. I don't care what party you belong to, that money needs to be spent here, on f'ing America and Americans. Name one country that taxes their citizens like the US does and then ships it overseas.
What’s the name of this new global reserve currency that totally exists?
Nobody knows what will happen after that.
YOU certainly don't.
Obama is behind the curtain directing everything that Biden and Harris do and say.
Trump will win the Electoral and popular vote in a landslide, and Kamala will do what Pence didn't have the balls to do - send it back and decline to certify - then we will be in a Constitutional crisis that BRICs will lead, in implementing the new "currency" away from the $$$. Civil War? Don't know....but maybe perhaps the old versus the young.....who have been brainwashed by television, and have no idea who the hell they are.
For most of my adult life, the Reps have been screaming that "if the Dems win, they'll be coming for our guns, gas/food/etc. prices will explode, cartel gangs will take over, blah blah blah" After 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, and 4 years of Biden, no one ever came for my guns, inflation responded regular market crap, the cartel gangs are the new mafia, so effing what?! The deficit keeps going up, and it goes up MORE during Rep administrations. I swear you people need to turn off Fox News, or as I call it Fear & Anger television. Even the owners of the station admitted in court that it's not a news station, it's an entertainment station. But you won't turn it off, because you're addicted to the dopamine rush you get from all that emotional drivel they push. It's so much more satisfying to ride that dopamine high than it is to actually learn, think critically, and understand.
Last night I heard Robert Kennedy Jr speak and a black mother in the audience stood up that was a resident of CA while Kamala was DA. Interesting to see it was about schools losing funding for children being absent for long periods. Kamala said she wanted that money & issued order for parents to be arrested. This student had sickle cell & gravely ill. Her mom lost her house, her job & everything of. value while in jail. Please display this video!
The stock market lost about 1% Wednesday. CNN ran an article saying it was because most investors see a Trump victory. It has gained most of that back yesterday and today. It was (actual not speculated) earnings reports from a few blue chips. They are not doing as well due to this economy. This economy is due to this administration's policies. CNN and the liberals are lying through their teeth blaming Trump for everything. The man hasn't been in office the past 4 years.
Eh, the stock market hasn’t been struggling under this admin, you may be thinking of the Covid years under Trump.
Why didn't he do that in his first term?
You misspelled MSNBC.
October 25, 2024 at 2:02 PM, the stock market is doing well because this administration has heavily spent in the Green New Deal, and the military industrial complex. Those expenditures, in turn, cause Wall Street to prosper. Government spending is not economic growth.
2:02 I don’t think anyone said the market struggled, I think the point was CNN used a one day dip to blame it on Trump.
Old men dreaming about civil wars from the comfort of their cubicles and cramped offices.
This is what it feels like to be left behind.
It does not matter if you are a Republican or Democrat. What does matter is the character of the person you vote for. If you can vote for a person who exhibits the characteristics of Donald Trump then it says more about your values and you. I am a Republican and a Nam vet and I would vote for a dead chicken before I would stoop to Trumps level. The poster above was correct 8 years of Clinton and 8 years of Obama and 4 years of Biden did not produce the gloom and doom prophecy that Fox news always projects.
You misspelled MSNBC, and Harris.
Saying MSNBC is “biased” doesn’t cut it. To watch MSNBC for an afternoon is not so much to be given a slanted account of what is happening in America, but instead to witness a series of discussions about current events in parallel America II... America II, as anyone who watches the channel will discover rather swiftly, hosts a supermajority of well-meaning multi-culti, progressive types whose foolproof plans for explosive economic growth, uniform social justice, and general human utopia are constantly being undone by a blossoming white-supremacist movement, split apart by neo-secessionists, and existentially threatened by traitors whose defining characteristic is a never-quite-explained hatred for progress. America II features no gray areas whatsoever: All local variation is apartheid, each and every identification requirement is the second coming of Jim Crow, all criticism of the government is sedition. It’s exhausting. ...
I smell panic. Not just in Brooklyn, but Belhaven.
Loosen that tinfoil hat, chief.
Next time I’ll watch my mouth if I want to exercise my right to free speech up in here. Looking at you, “Editor.”
No doubt Trump will carry Mississippi and no doubt , yet again, Mississippi will be taken for granted and ignored and will stay on the bottom.
Hello, what is your explanation for Trump not becoming a dictator in his first term? Hello, hello.
If Trump wins then Putin wins and Democracy is over.
Good, then maybe we can have our constitutional republic back.
Well dang
The polls in 2016 and 2020 underestimated the Trump vote and that is likely the case again. He wins the electoral college in a landslide.
12:42 with the best comment. Well done.
@9:17, what the hell does the presidential election have to do with Mississippi being ranked 50th or near it so many times? If we don't like the ranking, then get off our asses and change the circumstances. Elect people to local offices who actually know how to work, know the job, and can make improvements. Elect community organizers, family members, people who donated to you, well, that's what you get.
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